Power spacing

In the last movie, I talked about making grids of objects.…Now I want to show you how you can resize those grids, or more specifically, how…you can resize a grid or any other selected objects on a page by telling…InDesign to add or remove space between each of the objects.…It's a pretty weird non-intuitive technique, and it all comes down to the spacebar.…I have my brochure document opened from the Exercise File, and I'm going to zoom…in on the lower right corner of this page.…Now, I'm going to select all four of these graphic frames just by dragging the…Selection Tool over them.…

Not only does InDesign select all four of these, but it adds selection handles…around their corners and on their sides.…If I drag one of those side handles, for example, the bottom handle, it will…resize all four of those objects.…I'll drag this down and then let go and you'll see that all four of those…objects have grown, they've gotten taller.…The images inside those frames are set to Auto size, so those also have gotten…

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3/22/2013

In this course David Blatner builds on his Essential Training series, bringing his knowledge of and passion for Adobe InDesign to lessons that show you how to harness its power and functionality. This installment covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to cutting-edge layout and text-formatting techniques. Learn how to set key application and document preferences, format long documents, match swatches, use GREP styles, and much more.